Sprint to report 1 million 4Q additions

Sprint need a $40 plan, it seems that is where many people draw the line

 

It is for me. I just cannot afford more than 45$ a month (on rateplan). I get 400 SMS, 400 peak, 1000 m2m, and unlimited N/W for 43.99, and with taxes it's around 48. I don't work right now (college) and I don't use the phone that much. I use about 500 peak minutes, usually 350 peak, 150 peak mobile to mobile. With Sprint I would pay probably a good 8$ more a month for the same services (providing sprint has decent SMS rates). While I agree Sprint is great on higher plans, it seems only Cingular/Verizon can offer what I need at my pricepoint right now (TM sucks in DE). But...I just might pay that 8$, unless Verizon can improve coverage at my college!

Doesn't it figure Sprint works the best for mewith it being average at all 3 places I live but is $$ right now , Cingular works great at house #1 and college, won't work at house #2, Verizon works well at houses 1 and 2, sucks at college!

 

"Speaking today at the Smith Barney Citigroup Entertainment, Media and Telecommunications Conference in New York, Forsee said he expects to see nearly 390,000 direct additions and 610,000 additions from strategic partners during the fourth quarter of 2003. Sprint expects to end the year with more than 20 million PCS subscribers."

I think I remember reading in RCR that the 610,000 additions from strategic partners were actually only from one and it was Virgin Mobile. If that is the case, did they really add that many since they will not see all the revenue from those customers seeing as though Virgin will see a slice?

 

I guess its not as good as adding that many, but they still see a significant amount of revenue from it.

 

The 610,000 figure should be combined numbers from Virgin Mobile and their other affiliates (ie Alamosa, Ubiquitel, etc.). I'm not sure on that though. Sprint does see a lot of revenue from those customers.